After writing the article "Overview of the WordPress Community in 2016" and getting feedback for the article on various platforms, I decided to continue writing them, but I changed its name into "Roundup of WordPress ecosystem". This is the first article from a monthly series that will showcase what happened around the whole ecosystem in […]
Continue ReadingBuilding a WordPress community website can be a great idea not only because you can control the experience of the user, manage SEO and inbound traffic, but also because I think a community is more about nurturing a constant, active presence and happy experience. If we speak about the integration between our Profile Builder & […]
Continue ReadingWe're excited to announce a new integration between AffiliateWP & Paid Member Subscriptions. Paid Member Subscriptions is our WordPress Membership plugin that enables you to create and manage member subscriptions, grant and revokes access to posts, pages, categories as well as custom post types based on the subscriptions your users have purchased. AffiliateWP is an affiliate […]
Continue ReadingIn 2016 our plugin business had a 28% growth in revenue over the previous year. During the end of the year break, I took some time to analyze what this number really means and if this metric should be the most relevant one to focus for the years to come. To put things in perspective, […]
Continue ReadingAs 2016 comes to a close and we are looking forward to the next year we wanted to take some time and look at the WordPress activity within the whole community. Automattic published the past week their annual report, where you can check lots of statistics about their activity, WooCommerce, Jetpack, WordPress.com and WordPress VIP […]
Continue ReadingIf you’ve been keeping up with the latest WordPress updates, then you surely know that WordPress 4.7 was released this week and is now available for download. This latest version, named “Vaughan” in honor of jazz legend, Sarah "Sassy" Vaughan is the third major version released by WordPress earlier this year, following WordPress 4.6 "Pepper" […]
Continue ReadingEnabling User Profiles for your website can have several benefits, especially if your type of business requires interaction among users. To build forums with user profiles for WordPress-based websites, there are several plugins available, but we will particularly talk about bbPress User Profiles. The Pro Version of our Profile Builder plugin now supports bbPress integration and forum […]
Continue ReadingGetting people to register for your website can be hard, but with Multi-Step Registration Forms you can change those unpleasant forms into user-friendly ones. There are a few recommended steps you can follow in order to build a more user-friendly form: build value around your registration form eliminate unnecessary fields group fields in a logical way and […]
Continue ReadingOne of the heavily requested features by Profile Builder users was the ability to add repeater fields or groups of fields dynamically to front-end user registration forms, without having a predefined number. The user should be able to repeat a certain field or set of fields when registering or editing his profile in the front-end. […]
Continue ReadingThe reCaptcha add-on extends the Paid Member Subscriptions plugin by allowing you to add Google's secure verification to your forms in order to protect your website from spam user registrations. Here are the configuration steps. Installing the plugin This add-on is a Basic Add-On, available for all versions, including the free one. To make it […]
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